Snipbook

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Editor features

A tour of Snipbook's canvas — tools, styling, photos and stickers, page formats, and exporting your pages

The canvas

Each page is a fixed-size sheet you draw on, zoom into, and pan around. Pinch or scroll to zoom (desktop: Ctrl/Cmd + scroll), and drag to pan — the view is kept close to the page, so you never lose track of it. A page nav pill at the bottom shows where you are ("2 / 5") and lets you step between pages or add a new one.

Undo and redo cover every change — drawing, moving, styling, deleting. Use the buttons in the corner or Cmd/Ctrl+Z (add Shift to redo). Delete/Backspace removes the selected element, Cmd/Ctrl+D duplicates it, and Cmd/Ctrl+V pastes an image straight from your clipboard onto the page. Escape deselects, finishes a drawing in progress, or backs out of preview.

Tools

Four tools live in the toolbar:

  • Select — pick, move, resize, and rotate anything on the page.
  • Text — click to drop a text box.
  • Draw — freehand pen strokes. It stays armed across pen-downs, so lifting and starting again continues the same drawing until you switch tools.
  • Shapes — rectangles, rounded rectangles, circles, lines, arrows, and double-headed arrows, all from one panel.

Selected elements show resize handles on their corners and edges, plus a rotate handle above them; rotation gently catches at 15° angles so square turns feel snappy. Every element can be layered forward/backward or sent to the front/back, and duplicated or deleted from its style panel. You can also lock an element so it can't be moved by accident — a locked element offers nothing but an Unlock button until you free it again.

Styling

Each tool's panel adjusts the look of what you're about to draw — or of whatever's currently selected:

  • Shapes — pick a fill and stroke color from a curated palette (with a "no fill" / "no stroke" option), a sketchy or plain look (sketchy shapes can be hachured or solid-filled), three stroke weights, solid/dashed/dotted lines, and opacity. Arrows and lines share these controls plus a choice of arrowhead style.
  • Draw — brush size, color, and opacity.
  • Text — a font picker (dozens of families across text, display, handwriting, and mono styles, searchable and previewed live), five preset sizes, bold/italic/underline, four alignments, color, and opacity.
  • Photos — swap the image out, adjust opacity, and (for illustrations with tintable parts) recolor those parts.

Color pickers open a palette switcher too — around twenty named palettes to pick from, so a whole page can share one consistent set of colors.

Photos and stickers

Tap Add picture to drop a photo from your device onto the page — pick more than one at once and they'll cascade in, each slightly offset from the last.

Your Pocket (bottom-left) holds everything you've saved for reuse: photos you've added before and stickers/illustrations gathered from the Store. Tap a pocket item to place it; tap the + to browse the Store for more. Some Store items are full-page backgrounds — placing one locks it to the page and stretches it to cover the sheet, so your content sits cleanly on top.

Pages

A page has an aspect ratio — square, 3:2, 4:3, 16:9, or A4 — in either orientation, chosen from the ⋯ menu's page format panel. Changing it reframes the page around its center. New pages inherit the format of the page they were added from, so a diary can freely mix portrait and landscape pages.

From a diary's page grid you can add, duplicate, delete, and drag pages into a new order.

Saving and exporting

Everything you draw saves automatically to your device — there's no save button to hit. Pages work fully offline, and nothing leaves your device unless you choose to share it. See Privacy for more on what stays local.

From the ⋯ menu you can:

  • Share or Export the current page as a PNG image.
  • Export as PDF, with the page rendered at its true printed size for ratios like A4.
  • Preview the page full-screen with the chrome hidden (the eye icon).

On a phone or tablet

The editor adapts to touch: style panels collapse into a bottom bar with tappable category buttons instead of an always-open side panel, and pinch-to-zoom replaces the scroll wheel. Press and hold an element to pick it up — it lifts slightly with a shadow so you can feel it's grabbed — then drag it into place.

  • What Snipbook is — the short version of what the app does.
  • Privacy — what stays on your device, and what, if anything, leaves it.
  • Offline use — installing Snipbook and what needs a connection.